Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere

Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture Straniere
Roma Tre University – Via Valco San Paolo, 19
Registration is open from 09.00 on Thursday and Friday on the ground floor
THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER
AULA (Room) “B” (first floor)
SALA (Room) “Ignazio Ambrogio” (second floor)
WELCOME
9.30-10.15
10.15-11.10
PLENARY
Iram Siraj, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
What does the evidence on effective early learning tell us about what to research to support young multilingual learners?
COFFEE BREAK
11.10-11.30
Session 1
Bilingualism
11.30-13.00
Session 2
Diversity & Multilingualism
11.30-12.00
Ecological measures of language development in bilingual children, Maja Roch & Gordana Hrzica
University of Padua, Italy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Language teaching choices and opportunities in multilingual settings in early childhood education
Gunhild Tomter Alstad
Hedmark University College, Norway
12.00-12.30
Children’s meta-linguistic talk in a bilingual kindergarten: a language learning and social interaction
Mila Schwartz & Naomi Gorbatt Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel
Early childhood English language evaluation: a communicative approach
Marta Walliser
Instituto Franklin- UAH in Alcalá de Henares, Spain
12.30-13.00
Bilingual education in state-funded preschool institutions: the case of Serbia
Danijela Prosic-Santovacn & Danijela Radović
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Different routes to spatial language in multilingual preschoolers with German as L2
Heike Behrens, Stefanie Haberzettl, Natalia Kapica, Karin Madlener, Giulio Pagonis, Maike Schug & Katrin Skoruppa
University of Basel, Switzerland, Saarland University, University of Heidelberg, Germany
LUNCH BREAK
13.00-14.30
14.30-16.00
Session 3
Classroom teaching
Session 4
Home and parents
14.30-15.00
Approaching English at an early age: an experiment in an Italian child care institution
Matteo Santipolo, Alberta Novello & Lorenza Piombo
Università di Padova , Asilo Nido “Buonarroti” Rovigo, Italy
Caregiver communicative strategies for successful acquisition in a monolingual and multilingual environment
Victoria, A. Kazakovskaya & Elizaveta Khachaturyan
Russian Academy of Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway
15.00-15.30
Teaching second language at pre-primary level in Russia: past and present
Ekaterina Protassova
University of Helsinki, Finland
Impact of various sociolinguistic factors on acquisition of national language in Estonia.
Mart Rannut & Ülle Rannut
University of Tartu, Estonia & Immisoft New Immigrant Adaptation Centre in Tallinn, Estonia
15.30-16.00
Variation in monolingual and bilingual parents’ and nonparents’ attitudes towards child bilingualism
Nada Poropat Jeletic, Tarita Štokovac, & Juraj Dobrila,
University of Pula, Croatia
Kindergarten – home collaboration focusing on multilingual children’s language development
Anja Pesch
Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
16.00-16.45
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER Presentation
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Teacher education and early childhood foreign language learning, Flora Sisti & Giovanna Carloni, University of Urbino, Italy
Raising children to become multilingual, Hein Lindquist, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Norway.
Content and language integrated learning and the Italian pre-school, Olivia Mair, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Double Children – growing up with two languages and two identities in UK, Opal Dunn, Independent Scholar, UK
In quest of the magic element in preschoolers’ vocabulary reception, Thomaï Alexiou, Thomas Zapounidis & Ioanna Kostopoulou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki; Hellenic Open University, Greece
16.45-18.15
Session 5
Home-parents
Session 6
Research & Practice
16.45-17.15
Empowerment through knowledge – boosting parents’ confidence in multilingual upbringing
Andrea C. Schalley & Susana A. Eisenchlas
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
From research on child L2 acquisition of English to classroom practice
Teresa Fleta
Madrid Complutense University, Spain
17.15-17.45
Developing UAE students’ Arabic and English Communication Skills through Parent Involvement
Kelly McBride, Annamica Ramdeen, & Joy Wilson
Zakher KG, Abu Dhabi Education Council, United Arab Emirates
The role of the critical period and the typological distance in the acquisition of Italian as L2 by immigrant children
Patrizia Giuliano,
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
17.45-18.15
The roles of parents in nurturing multiple literacies and mediating multilingual identities
Nayr Ibrahim
University of Reading / British Council, Paris France
Levels of metalinguistic development in Italian-French bilingual preschoolers. Some methodological issues
Maria Antonietta Pinto, Sonia El Euch, Maria Carolina Lombardo & Paolo Iliceto
University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Canada), Statistics & Psychometrics, Rome (Italy)
SOCIAL DINNER Restaurant La Fraschetta
20.00
FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER
AULA (Room) “B” (first floor)
PLENARY
SALA (Room) “Ignazio Ambrogio” (second floor)
Jim Cummins, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, OISE - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Multilingualism in early childhood education: research, policy, and pedagogy in an era of unprecedented population mobility
Session 7
Classroom teaching
Session 8
Home-parents
10.15-10.45
The onset of story comprehension and production in young children learning English
Traute Taeschner, Krizia Destino & Sabine Pirchio
La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Parents’ perspectives on their children’s language development in multilingual contexts
Olja Milosevic
International School of Belgrade, Serbia
10.45-11.15
Linguistic repertoires, interpretation and knowledge transfer during English picturebook read alouds
Sandie Mourão
Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal.
Home language literacy education: a gaming approach.
Susana A. Eisenchlas, Andrea C., Schalley & Gordon Moyes,
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
11.15-11.45
COFFEE BREAK
Session 9
Classroom teaching
Session 10
Differentiation and mediation
11.45-12.15
Does preschool support multilingualism? – an example from Croatia
Differentiation in an early years language planning project
Máire Mhic Mhathúna
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
12.15-12.45
Mindshifting – rethinking ‘English as discrete lessons’ or ‘English integrated into the curriculum’?
Gail Ellis
British Council Paris, France
“On va faire des lahmacuns?” Mediating languages and creating safe-spaces in the preschool classroom.
Latisha Mary & Andrea Young Université de Lorraine
Université de Strasbourg
12.45-13.15
Global perspectives on early childhood education in English for speakers of other languages
Victoria A. Murphy
Department of Education - University of Oxford, UK
Bilingual co-teaching in the UAE kindergarten to enhance speaking skills
Anna Dillon
College of Education at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
13.15-14.15
LUNCH BREAK & POSTER SESSION
Session 11
Migrants & Multilingualism
Session 12
Language Policies
14.15-14.45
Multilingualism in early childhood education. A European survey: the Welcomm project
Carla Bagna, Sabrina Machetti, Luana Cosenza, Paola Masillo & Luisa Salvati
University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy
Language policy in Poland: an interplay of top-down and bottom–up influences
Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow
Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland
14.45-15.15
Bilingual immigrant children`s use of recontexualized language
Marit Sundelin
The Arctic University of Norway
Foreign language learning in the Croatian preschool context
Marija Andraka & Milka Bilić-Štefan
University of Zagreb, Croatia
COFFEE BREAK
15.15-15.45
15.45-16.45
Session 13
Classroom teaching
Session 14
Diversity and Multilingualism
15.45-16.15
Foreign languages in Italian pre-school contexts: a case study
Lucilla Lopriore
Roma Tre University, Italy
Bilingual education in kindergarten: motivation and vocabulary learning. An Italian-Turkish school case study
Valentina Carbonara
University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy
16.15-16.45
Preschool teachers’ attitudes towards the early learning of a foreign language in Slovenia
Mateja Dagarin Fojkar & Darija Skubic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Comparing ESL error profiles of French and Polish-speaking children
François Pichette & Justyna Leśniewska
Université du Québec, Canada, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland
16.50-17.30
Round Table Session & Closing Ceremony